Lady Gaga’s “Heavy Metal Lover,” from her latest album “Born This Way,” deserves a second chance. The first time I heard the song, I was only half-interested in what I was hearing. The first lines—”“I want your whiskey mouth all over my blonde south”—”caught my immediate attention, and I …

Sometimes i have a preconceived rough idea on what an album is going to sound like before i listen to it. I have found that without bragging i am right more often than not. The problem with doing this though, is that when i build an album up in …

“Far Behind” is quite possibly Candlebox’s biggest single. In fact, it is the only song I actually know by them off hand anyways. The song reached the Billboard Top 20 in July of 1993 but wasn’t officially released as a single until 1994. The song appears on their self …

Just A Bullet Away is a song by Metallica which debuted at one of the band’s anniversary shows in San Francisco, California. With the working title of Shine, many fans may have heard snippets from Mission Metallica clips while the band was writing Death Magnetic. As many fans looked …

Overview - Broken, the first EP put out by Nine Inch Nails, is basically eight extremely aggressive songs just fueled by anger, which becomes obvious not only through Reznor’s voice but even through his guitar playing. Generally I’m not a huge fan of albums that have just one feel …

This album is amazing. I used to be very fond of it when I was a teenage kid. I liked all the songs on it, and I liked the fact that the songs were so easy and melodic, and not very hard, even though it of course felt like …

Uprising, a very recent single released by Muse for their latest record The Resistance, has an extremely catchy vocal melody along with excellent lyrics and musical parts to go with it. Uprising starts out with a very space-like vibe and sound due to the synthesizer and the bass riff …

A big radio hit by the rock group Kings of Leon is something you’ve probably heard somewhere whether it be on the radio,parties and events,or even a band you saw that covered it. This song is called Use Somebody. I first heard this song when a band at my …

Overview —“ Leper Messiah, the sixth track on Metallica’s Master Of Puppets, is a song which has a similar sound to the previous track, Disposable Heroes, although not quite as fast but just as heavy, if not more so. If you have read my reviews for the tracks on …

I am a true fan of music, and able to listen to just about any genre without feeling as though I need to switch to something else. I must admit, though, I have never really been a fan of anthem rock, as I usually find it either completely boring …

Don’t Ease Me In is a song by The Grateful Dead which appears on their record Go To Heaven. The track starts off with a very upbeat sounding bit before the vocals of the track come in which only reinforce this feel to be honest. Although I’m not a …

Whole Lotta Love is a track by Led Zeppelin which appears on Led Zeppelin II. Page’s main guitar riff on this song has become extremely well known and it’s a good riff as well so there’s good reason for this. When you look for a track to start an …

R. Kelly ft. Boo & Gotti
“To The Homies That Were Lost (I Wish - Remix)”
TP-2.COM
Jive Records
This is the remix to R. Kelly’s song, “I WIsh”, which is the first single and music video from his fourth solo effort titled “TP-2.COM”. Whereas the original version was filled with plenty of …

She’s Always in my Hair is the B-side to Prince’s 1985 single, Paisley Park. It is an amazing track and has always been my all-time favourite B-side of the Purple One. I used to have the 12″ vinyl back in the day but in a fit of …

I have been a fan of the Cure since I was 13 years old. I heard their albums 17 Seconds and Pornography and I fell in love with those albums. I really thought that they were amazing records. And at the time when I was listening to them when …

Who remembers Rockwell? The last time I heard from him was when he had collaboration with Michael Jackson in the song Somebody’s Watching me. After that, then came this song. If you want to feel sad and feel like crying to let all your feelings out, listen to song …

I love The Verve. They’re sound is similar to that of Oasis, very haunting and thought provoking. This is their greatest hits album. I don’t own many of their singles, hence why I decided to buy this album. The album is simply amazing. The standout track for me is …

Lips Of An Angle by Hinder is a song I like because it talks about how a guy still has feelings for this other girl and it goes into details about how this girl gives the guy a phone call and the guys girl does not know it is …

WHen I was younger in my earlier years of high school, I had just gone into an alternative rock phase. I think that was about the same time which a new alernative rock singer named Michelle Branch emerged upon the scene. I liked her since I thought her songs …

Yellow is a song by Coldplay which appears on their record Parachutes. Opening up with a melodic guitar pattern, the track soon gives way to a slightly more electric guitar lead, but the song still manages to maintain it’s very melodic feel and sound to it. Chris Martin comes …

The Souls of Mischief started out in 1993 with their debut “93 til infinity”, and they defined themselves as intelligent West Coast Rappers with Jazzy beats and decent production.
Pep Love, Tajai, A-Plus, and Phesto along with Casual made their mark in music, proving to everyone that they were a …

Skate Park is a song by Andrew Jackson Jihad which appears on their 2011 record, Knife Man. Opening up with a brooding atmosphere created by the drums, the song quickly transitions into an actual riff which I actually think sound’s pretty interesting. Thus far, the guitar riff is interesting, …

I know that the band’s name is somewhat hard to pronounce (I even heard one time my classmate said, “Cheveches” and I was like, what?”) but really, it’s just pronounced as “Churches”, they’re just probably bad in the spelling department!
But thankfully enough, their music is nowhere near as bad …

Once many people get to know me it will soon become clear to them that I am not the type of person who likes listening to soul music. In fact, I think many people will be surprised to find out that I actually know a lot about old soul …

Justin Bieber. You love him. You despise him. You are in the middle. Regardless everyone has their own distinct opinion of Justin Bieber. If any song is going to convince Bieber haters to see a positive side of the singer it’s his inspirational song “Pray.” Or it will just …

This is a good new cd. It is Lenny Kravitz’s newest cd. Compared to Lenny Kravitz’s other cd’s, such as Baptism, and the Lenny Kravitz Greatest Hits, this is nothing. With his other cd’s compared to other cd’s he has to many slow songs. By slow, I mean a …

Overview —“ One, the first music video ever released by Metallica is a video that goes back and forth between the band playing the song and a story to follow the lyrics of it. I know that a lot of controversy is associated with this video because Metallica was …

Sounds of Earth: Rainforest - Sounds Of The Earth Series is a wonderful audio CD to listen to. This CD offers a couple noticeable sounds in the background: the sounds of birds, the sound of a stream on track one, and the sound of thunder on track two. I …

United States Of Eurasia (+ Collateral Damage) is a track by Muse which appears on their most recent record, The Resistance. For those of you who have heard this track then I’m sure you can agree with me when I say that it seems like Queen had a good …

Something Happened To Me Yesterday is a song by The Rolling Stones which appears on their record Between The Buttons. The track starts off with a humorous sounding brass section in the right channel of the track which gives the song almost a circus like feel. Jagger comes in …

The wide variety of guitars in the market today makes guitar shopping a tough challenge for beginning musicians. With today’s economy the instrument of choice should deliver the needs of the musician with an affordable deal.
The Yamaha F-325 Steel String Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar is a prime choice …

I suppose the important thing to note about The Outsiders soundtrack being reviewed is that it’s the soundtrack CD released in Germany. It’s important to mention because it doesn’t match completely what is on the American version, or in the American movie at any rate.
The Outsiders has an …

All The Time is a song by Green Day which appears on their album Nimrod. The track starts off with a staccato sounding guitar riff before the bass and the drums quickly come in. The track has that very characteristic pop-punk three-chord sound which has come to be associated …

I just recently started listing to Sufjan Stevens and really really really enjoy them. they have a unique sound that I dont think can be found in any other artist of today. the track titles are extreamly long and hilarious such as track #2 entitled The Black Hawk War, …

Strawberry Fields Forever is a song by The Beatles which appears on their most psychedelic work, Magical Mystery Tour. The song starts off with a very melodic sound which sounds almost as if the song were in a dream before Lennon comes in gently with the vocals as this …

I remember this seemed odd for a while, that Neil Diamond would do a holiday album since he’s Jewish. There was talk that since Barbra Streisand was doing another one, it somehow was okay for him to do one. I don’t recall the specifics much now, but …

Rihanna has come into the musical industry with quite a bang. And although she hasn’t been that instantly famous as some superstars had been, right fro the start, she has been really working hard to get to the top. From her first album, she was known to a few …

Girl From The North Country is a song by Bob Dylan which appears on his record The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. The song opens up with a melodic fairly paced acoustic guitar part from Dylan before he joins in with the vocals. His voice seems to have a bit of …

Julia is the final track which appears on the first disk of The Beatles’ White Album. An interesting fact about Julia is that this is the only Beatles track throughout their entire catalogue where Lennon plays on the track, and Lennon alone. No other Beatle is heard on this …

Nine Heavens, the second album by Niyaz, a group comprised of former Vas vocal Azam Ali, instrumentalist Loga Ramin Torkian, and DJ Carmen Rizzo, is an ecstatic 2-CD compilation. The first of these contains 9 electronically mixed songs, and the second repeats the same songs except one in an …

Stick with you is one of the Pussycat Dolls’s song that has a low melodic tempo if usually Pussycat dolls is known as the energic of every song, so do with their move in dance, in ’stick with you’ Pussycat Dolls explore the soft side of the girl.
The lyrics …

Ain’t No Telling is a track by Jimi Hendrix which appears on Axis: Bold As Love. This track is extremely short at only two minutes in length and the song wastes no time getting right into the bulk of the music. I can describe the track as being very …

Time To Pretend is a song by MGMT which appears on their second record, Oracular Spectacular. Being one of many singles to be released off this record, I’m sure this song is familiar to just about all MGMT fans and probably most people who listen to a rock radio …

The Hangover is a film directed by Todd Phillips which focuses on a bachelor party gone completely wrong in Las Vegas where three friends lose their friend whose getting married. I’ve seen the movie twice and to be honest both times I thought it was pretty funny. I will …

Out of all the Star Trek movie soundtracks, I consider this to be my favorite one with perhaps the only exception being Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. The reason I enjoy this soundtrack so very much is because much of the music is incredibly rich and well crafted. …

Don’t Trust Me by 3OH!3 (pronounced 303) is a great song that has recently come out. However, due to its popularity, the song has become slightly overplayed. I had this song recommended to me on itunes months before it became popular and now it played so frequently, …

Now let’s not kid ourselves, shall we? Justin Timberlake is basically one of the most recognizable pop star this century. I’m not familiar with most of his work when he was with N’Sync and his pre-2010’s solo work but his comeback this decade is just phenomenal. He is getting …

Overview —“ Melissa, the debut album released by Mercyful Fate, is an album that I actually got into because of Metallica. For those of you who don’t know, Metallica released a cover album entitled Garage Inc. which featured a song called Mercyful Fate which turned out to really just …

When Britney Spears was in her prime I was never really a big fan of her. I did like some of her songs, just not all of them. When she went through her difficult time of cutting off her hair and locking herself in the bathroom, I thought it …

L.L. Cool J’s album . Mama Said Knock you Out is one of the best rap CDs to ever come out. This is a true hip hop classic. I really liked this album and lot and I thought that the beats were very well done, as well as the lyrics. …